344	LETTERS FROM INDIA.
Saturday, April 1.
Fanny    and   	   arrived   yesterday   at
twelve o'clock—twenty-four hours sooner than
we expected them—but the steamer had met
them farther on than we expected. Fanny is
looking uncommonly well, in prodigious spirits,
and quite brushed up by her expedition, and has
not suffered half so much as I should have ex-
pected from the heat of the last week. 	
looks thin. Fanny has done a great many
sketches, and they have picked up a great many
new stories to talk about, and altogether it has
been a happy device.    	 brought me as
lovely a money-box from Moorshedabad as I
ever saw.
Wednesday, April 5.
We came down to Calcutta Sunday night.
Yesterday evening we had a very full ball—
one of the best we have had—but there is no
other house open in the hot season, so they are
glad to meet here.
Wednesday, April 12.
I went out in the carriage with George on
Monday evening, but even the evenings now are
too hot to be the least refreshing, and it is better